SUMMARY:

AgriNorthwest is seeking a highly organized and detail-orientated Area Accounting Specialis t to join our Boardman farm team. The Specialist helps maintain good internal controls and protect company assets while ensuring a professional office environment and good relationships with operations managers, customers, vendors, and other visitors. The Area Accounting Specialist is the key liaison between farm units and centralized accounting functions.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• High School Diploma or equivalent required. Continued education or professional certifications preferred.
• 5+ years in accounting/bookkeeping/clerical work or equivalent combination of experience and education/training.
• Current Notary Public or ability to become certified.
• Proficient with 10-key operations and general computer skills, including Microsoft tools. Previous use of HRIS (Lawson) and/or Kronos desired.
• Demonstrate strong interpersonal, collaboration, and communication skills. Bilingual Spanish a plus.
• Excellent attention to detail, time management, and outstanding organization skills.
• Able to work after hours work on critical business systems, as needed.
• Requires sitting for long periods of time and occasional lifting/moving of computer hardware devices, doors, desks, and other office furniture. Ability to lift 50 lbs.Able to travel to various farm and office locations (domestic travel).

• Review and reconciles out-of-field crop load tickets that have been entered into the Harvest system against physical records.
• Create and distribute daily harvest and monthly crop and cost reports.
• Maintain crop information in our Field tracking software.
• Maintain chemical, fertilizer, seed, irrigation, and fuel usage with the inventory issued out of the accounting system.
• Perform period reconciliations of chemical and fertilizer accounting balances with physical counts.
• Manage the accounting and reporting functions for dry fertilizer blends.
• Provide support to managers in compiling and preparing annual fumigation management plans.
• Order chemicals, fertilizers, fuel, office, and cleaning supplies based on manager requests.
• Maintain irrigation information, prepare journal entries to distribute costs, and supply weekly irrigation reports.
• Enter data into systems and generate seed planting summaries.
• Coordinate with vendors on receiving discrepancies and resolve outstanding purchase orders.Review labor hours for approvals and coding to support payroll processing.
• Track and prepare payments and paperwork for truck drivers.
• Provide timeclock training to managers and other usersSupervise scale operators.
• Enter general ledger journal entries into the accounting system to correct and distribute costs. Cross train on other accounting duties and serve as back-up.